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¿War on terror¿ in the name of feminism
[25 Jan 2012] The 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City led to a hunt for alleged terrorists worldwide. In American war propaganda, liberating oppressed women was an argument for strikes against Afghanistan and Iraq. Several researchers hold the view that the so-called war against terrorism resulted, instead, in a gigantic setback for gender equality.
"Anti-school attitudes" reduce boys" job chances
[6 Oct 2011] Boys have performed less well than girls at school for as long as such performance has been measured. Nonetheless, to date, the labour market¿s winners have been male. So why do we refer to boys¿ ¿underperformance¿, or ¿underachievement¿, as a problem nowadays?
Gender Perspective Boosts Innovativeness
[8 Aug 2011] "Gender and innovation" is a new research area, almost entirely confined to Sweden so far. Combining gender studies and innovation research is new, but the two fields have much in common.
A Long Way Before Women Got Their Half
[24 Mar 2011] Although quotation is still seen as a controversial method in Sweden, the attitude has changed radically since the question was first addressed in the 1920s. The struggle for women¿s political representation has given results. However it has been a long fight to increase the number of women in Parliament.
New thesis questions the explanations to gender wage gap
[19 Apr 2010] The gender wage gap is accounted for to a substantial degree by the sex composition of occupations. Charlotta Magnusson, at Stockholm University, examines the mechanisms that produce this pattern.